Emmanuel Uduaghan dies, according to a family statement reported on Monday. The former Delta governor served from 2007 to 2015.
Word has started going round that former Delta State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan, is dead. His family put out a statement on Monday morning, October 19, 2026, breaking the news themselves.
The statement, signed by Toju Anire Uduaghan, was titled “Announcement of the Passing of His Excellency, Dr Chief Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan, CON.” Beyond expressing how heartbroken the family is, it didn’t say much else — nothing on what actually led to his death.
Emmanuel Uduaghan dies
For those who may not know, Uduaghan isn’t just any name in Delta politics. He ran the state as governor between 2007 and 2015, and long before that, he was known as a medical doctor. After leaving the government house, he didn’t fully exit public life either — he went on to represent Delta South in the Senate. All in all, he’s someone who spent years being a familiar face in the state’s political circles.
Now that this news is spreading, it’s only expected that tributes will start pouring in — from fellow politicians, people who worked with him over the years, and everyday Deltans who followed his time in office, whether up close or from afar. Emmanuel Uduaghan dies
As of now though, there’s no word on what caused his death, and nothing has been said about burial plans either. Those details simply aren’t out yet. Emmanuel Uduaghan dies
This also isn’t the first time such a story has come up. Back in June, a similar rumour made the rounds online claiming he had died, but the Delta State Government quickly waved it off, saying his daughter had personally confirmed he was alive and well at the time.
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Abba Kyari, the Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari is dead.
Mr Kyari died of Coronavirus.
The president’s chief of staff had gone on self-isolation late March after testing positive for the disease.
He had subsequently moved to Lagos for treatment. Details of his death are still sketchy but Femi Adesina, the presidential spokesman, confirmed it in a tweet. Emmanuel Uduaghan dies
Read the press release by the presidency
The Presidency regrets to announce the passage of the Chief of Staff to the President, Mallam Abba Kyari.
The deceased had tested positive to the ravaging COVID-19, and had been receiving treatment. But he died on Friday, April 17, 2020.
May God accept his soul.
Funeral arrangements will be announced shortly. Continue reading here
Meanwhile; President Buhari who replied the 16-page open letter written by Olusegun Obasanjo, described the former President as coward and further threatened to teach him a lesson he will never forget. Emmanuel Uduaghan dies
Buhari who replied Obasanjo in a statement titled ‘Get Well Soon’, accused the former President of handpicking his candidates against all known rules of the party that got him into power. It was further claimed that the former President, has never allowed any succeeding leader of the country function freely. Emmanuel Uduaghan dies
The statement reads in full;
The sixteen-page letter the former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, wrote to President Muhammadu Buhari and released this afternoon is the last push by desperate politicians who can’t handle the President politically and have resorted to subterfuge.
Our first message to the former President is that he needs a good doctor for good treatment and to say to him, “Get well soon.”
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